Commentary
Opportunity. It’s why we all came here. For generations, immigrants have brought the varying flavors of their life experiences to America, enriching and revitalizing our culture in the process. They came for freedom from government, with no expectations of relying on it.
Yet some multigenerational American families—having grown accustomed to our legal structures, living standards, economic dynamism, and unbounded opportunity—take these distinctly American values for granted. Leftist assaults on the traditional values of faith, hard work, and the profit motive arrive daily.
America’s story is one of immigration. The “New World” flowed from the discoveries of European explorers. Waves of largely Anglo-Saxon Protestants created the substructure of what became the American republic. Until the early 1800s enslaved people were brought from West Africa, followed by a massive wave of largely impoverished Irish. In rapid succession: Germans streamed into mid-western cities. Asians came to California. Throngs of Eastern and Southern Europeans brought foreign tongues, different hues of Judaism, and cultural benefits that helped make us “who we are.”…